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What Do You Do When You Don’t Know How You Are Feeling?
Working with rebalancing mindfulness of thought, feeling, and action in a crazy world.
I woke up this morning and asked myself the following five questions:
· What am I thinking?
· How am I feeling?
· What am I feeling?
· How do I expect today to be?
· What can I do to take control today?
In a recent article I wrote about this new practice as a means to make the day — any day — mindfully connected. Now I am working to start every day with these questions.
There is one small problem with this. Sometimes I can’t readily find the answers.
As per my plan, I am asking these questions aloud. I can identify what I am thinking, what I expect today to be, and how to take control of my day.
What and how I am feeling, however, has been much more elusive.
This raises an important question. Why am I having such a hard time identifying what and how I am feeling?
Because of this, today my day has been partially derailed. I have had a very difficult time writing anything today because my feelings are so cloudy. So, I decided, the…
